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Idioms and Phrases
Cornered, in distress, as in Angry bystanders chased the thief into an alley and held him at bay until the police arrived . This idiom originally came from hunting, where it describes an animal that has been driven back and now faces pursuing hounds. Its use for other situations dates from the late 1500s.Example Sentences
But Trump is firing all the cops who keep fraudsters at bay.
We need to monitor and study it — to understand it — if we want to keep it at bay.
Chris now eats four peanuts every morning with his breakfast granola to keep his allergy at bay – as recommended by his doctors.
Jackson has resources, high walls and a defense apparatus keeping the Cordyceps-infected hordes at bay.
Mr Davies said a property was warned on Monday evening to pack their belongings for possible evacuation, but the fire crew were able to keep the Cwm Rheidol blaze at bay.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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